Clothes-pole.



PATENTED FEB. 11, 1908.

D. G. DE MILT.

CLOTHES POLE.

APPLICATION FILED snmze, 1906.

WITNESSgSI DAVID G. 'DE MILI, OF TOLEDO, OHIO.

CLOTHES-POLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 11, 1908.

Application filed September 23. 1906. Serial No. 336533.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID-G. DE MILT, a citizen of the United States, residing at T0- ledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in ClothesPoles; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Clothes-line props or clothes-poles when not in use are unsightly and usually in the way, and when in use, they frequently slip, either at top or bottom, permitting the clothes-line to sag with the annoying result that the clothes on the line come in contact with the ground.

My invention relates to a clothes-line prop designed to overcome the objections and difficulties above indicated and, more particularly,.to provide a clothes-line prop formed in sections hinged together so that they may be folded one upon the other, into small compass, the extremities of the sections being provided with means for preventing the prop from slipping either at bottom or at top.

I attain these objects by means of the devices and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and shown, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my prop, extended in operative form, and Fig. 2, a side-elevation of the same, folded.

Corresponding parts are indicated by like numerals in both views.

In the drawings, 1 and 2 are like sections ofa bar, preferably of wood, and rectangular in cross-section. The two bar-sections are beveled at corresponding angles at their meeting ends, as at 3. 4 is a strip of sheet metal having two right-angular bends 5 which gives the strip a trough-like form. The sides and bottom of this piece embrace three of the sides of one end of the bar-section 1. One end of the piece 4 projects beyond the bar-section l to which it is secured by rivets 6. The sides of the piece 4 have parallel projecting ears 7, either formed integral with the piece 4 or suitably secured thereto. Between these ears is pivoted or hinged, as at 8, a strap or plate 9 the extremity of which is bolted, as at 10, to one side of the end of the bar-section 2. The hinge 89 is so arranged that when the two bar-sections are swung into alinement in the same plane the beveled ends 3 will abut against each other. In the projecting portion of the piece 4 is an opening 11. Upon the piece 2 is a swiveled button 12 which, when the two bar-sections are swung into alinement, passes through the opening 11. Now by giving the button 12 a quarter turn it overlaps and engages the sides of the opening 11 and securely holds the two bar-sections against movement upon their hinge and in alinement.

Through the bottom of the piece 1 is a transverse hole through which passes a piece of heavy stout wire 13 the projecting ends of which are bent downwardly and inwardly to overlap the end of the bar-section 1, and are further bent downwardly in line with the bar-section, as at 14, to form projecting spikes or prongs. These, when the prop is in use, stick into the ground and prevent'the bottom of the pole from slipping.

15 is a wire bent at its middle to form two parallel coils 16, the tops of the coils being flared apart, as shown, to admit the entering of a clothes-line between the twocoils. I The extremities of the wires are extended and are secured by a plate 17 to the side of the top of the prop. The two parallel coils are resilient and yield when a line is forced besaid bars which permits their swing either into parallel or alined relation, aplate secured to and projecting beyond the end of one of said bars and having an opening therethrough, and a swiveled button upon the other of said bars adapted to enter and to engage the margins of said opening.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

DAVID G. DE MILT. Witnesses:

H. N. HANSEN, ADA LAW. 

